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2018 ANAD Week Guide To celebrate National Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2018, the National Association of Anorexia and Associated Disorders (ANAD) invites you to participate in five days of activities. Each day this week is geared to help you challenge preconceived notions of beauty. ANAD asks you to consider the fact that beauty is only skin deep, that your worth surpasses the reflection you see in the mirror, and that discovering a definition of true beauty is your per- sonal right. In a world where the only standards of beauty are those you, yourself create, eating disorders cease and true hope arises.
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ANAD WEEK
SCHEDULE What is ANAD Week?
P.04-05 ANAD organizes programming for its yearly Eating Disorder Awareness
MAKEUPLESS MONDAY Week (EDAW) in order to promote greater awareness, education, under-
Don’t wear makeup today and share your nat- standing, and compassion for people suffering with an eating disorder.
ural beauty with everyone, including yourself.
The programming ANAD provides is clear and easy to apply to middle
school, high school, and college curriculum, and includes ways you can
get involved by creating your own video, written and social media.
P.06-07
TRASH YOUR INSECURITIES TUESDAY
Put your insecurities where they belong: in the
trash.
P.08-09
WHY YOU’RE BETTER THAN BARBIE
WEDNESDAY
Barbie upholds an impossible ideal. Show Bar-
bie and yourself why being you is better than
looking like Barbie.
P.10-11 GET SOCIAL
WITH ANAD
POST IT UP THURSDAY
Help a stranger out. Take five minutes and
post up a body positive and self-loving note in
#ANAD
a public place.
P.11-12
FEARLESS FRIDAY
#ANADWEEK
Stepping into your own power and your own
beauty will take confronting your fears. Do
#ANADALLY
something fearless today.
This year’s ANAD Week is inspired by ANAD’s larg-
est philanthropic donor, Delta Phi Epsilon sorority.
They have been holding ANAD Week events ever
since they became a partner, and the daily events
outlined in this guide were created by DPhiE Sis-
ters.
Thank you, Delta Phi Epsilon, for all that you do to
fight eating disorders, promote body positivity, and
encourage self-acceptance.
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MAKE What Else Makes you Feel
UP MO Good About Yourself?
LESS
N DAY
How about today you do other things that make you feel good about yourself,
that make you feel good to be YOU. These things could be everything from fo-
cusing on the relationships in your life that support you and make you feel ap-
preciated to doing things for others in need or just giving yourself some much
needed tender loving care. Ask some of your friends and family members to
join you today in leaving the lipstick in its tube and appreciating the things in
your lives that give it its true beauty.
SPENDING TIME W/FRIENDS
Read how one man proves that craving social interaction
is universal.
BEING A GOOD PERSON
Some good ways to help others.
TAKING CARE OF MYSELF
How to get your self-care on.
Why Shouldn’t I Wear Makeup Today?
We are constantly told and sold on the idea that makeup will make us look better,
feel better, be better. Sure, lipstick and foundation can be fun to wear, but do they
really make our lives and ourselves better? NOPE. Let your natural beauty shine
today as you leave your makeup at home and focus on the other things that make
you feel good about yourself and make you, well you.
Read how one woman was treated when wearing different levels of makeup.
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TRASH YOUR INSECURITIES
U ES DAY
T
How Often Have You
Let Your Insecurities
Get in Your Own Way?
Watch how Delta Phi Epsilon sorority sisters confront and trash their insecurities.
It’s easy in our image obsessed culture, to feel insecure about your body and
Don’t Let Your Insecurities Rule
You
appearance on some level. Today, challenge yourself to see your insecurities for
what they really are: TRASH. And really, who has time for trash?
Don’t have time to
get a trash can
and decorate it?
A regular waste-
basket will do.
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WHY YOU’RE BETTER
THAN BARBIE
WEDNESDAY
“If Barbie were an actual woman, she would be 5’9” tall, have a 39” bust, an 18” waist, 33” hips and a size 3
shoe,” Galia Slayen wrote in the Huffington Post. “She likely would not menstruate... she’d have to walk on
all fours due to her proportions.” Even considering the impossiblity of Barbie existing as a real human, she
still represents the very popular thin idealization of beauty. Show Barbie what you’re made of today, by ap- Click the image above to watch the Documentary Trailer for Miss Representation.
preciating all of the things that make you, uniquely you. You don’t have to look like Barbie to be worthwhile,
important, and beautiful. It’s Time to Really Look At and
Get Critical About the Messages
Our Culture is Selling Us
Watch the Documentary Miss Representation Get Critical
Read the following articles to truly under-
Miss Representation tells us the story
stand how Barbie affects our cultural ex-
of how much the media and our culture
pectations and ideals:
influences our thoughts about our-
selves and our behaviors. According to
The Scary Reality of a Real-Life Barbie Doll
the documentary, women are taught
that the most important thing about
How Barbie Affects Career Ambitions
them is how they look. Watch this doc-
umentary with friends today and share
Does Barbie Make Girls Want to Be Thin?
with us how you are going to take your
thoughts and behaviors back.
Watch the video above to see how Delta Phi Epsilon shares how they are better than Barbie.
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Y
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POST IT UP
U R S DA
T H
Why don’t we always have beautiful positive messages around us when we look in the mir-
ror? Let’s take charge and write sticky note messages on EVERY mirror or scale you encounter
today. Be powerful with your words of wisdom, silly with messages that make others laugh,
and loving with your notes of kindness. Operation Beautiful is an incredible movement that
was started to remind ourselves to love ourselves by posting up notes on mirrors, on public
walls, on fashion magazines, that remind us that we too are beautiful and enough.
Read more about Operation Beautiful here.
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE to get inspired to post up some notes today!
Operation Beautiful is not just
a website, but is also spread-
ing its body and self positive
messages in a book that in-
cludes more in-depth story of
how reading one positive post
it note changed someone’s
Better Body Image and Loving Yourself entire day.
Helps Eating Disorder Recovery
An eating disorder treatment center post-
ed up notes on the mirrors and doors at
their facility to help encourage “positive
messages, affirmations and words of en-
couragement to create positive self dia-
logue.” See their post it notes here.
Get yourself some post-it notes or try
some Tesla Amazing magnetic notes.
You can hang these on ANYTHING.
Write down what YOU WOULD LOVE TO
READ on a bathroom mirror, on the wall of
the subway, or on an unsuspecting wall.
Take a photo and share it on your social
media to encourage your friends and family
to participate And share it with ANAD too!
#ANADWeek Post it note by: Marissa Renee Post it note by: Marissa Renee
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FEARLESS FRIDAY
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Get Fearless
How about DOING something that is fearless today? Tell someone about your story. Whether it’s
a recovery story or not, it’s about being open to who YOU are and sharing that. Wear what you
want to without judging yourself or your body. And to finish this fearless streak, end the night with
a close gathering for an ANAD Candlelight Vigil. Light a candle to signify the power of unity and
strength, and your source of inner light. Shine on!
BECOME FEARLESS TODAY
Arianna Huffington wrote the book On Becoming
Fearless for her teenager daughters that she was,
“stunned to see all the same classic fears I was bur-
According to Arianna Huffington in her book, According to Arianna, living in fear HARMS us. She
dened with: How attractive am I? Do people like me? On Becoming Fearless, “the greatest beauty se- wrote in her book, “To live in fear is the worst form
Should I speak up? I wonder if their fears are more cret is to live out our passions and connect with of insult to our true selves. Trapped by our own
intense than mine were at their age or if they just our own spirit.” fears, we then pretend that we’re incapable of hav-
seem more intense. I had thought that with all the ing what we want, forever waiting for others to give
She shares the following data from the 2004 us permission to start living. Pretty soon, we start to
gains feminism has brought, my daughters would Dove Campaign for Real Beauty Report about believe this is the only way.”
not have to suffer through the fears I did. Yet here when women feel most beautiful:
is our younger generation, as uncertain, doubting, When they help others
54%
and desperate as we were, trying to fulfill the expec-
tations of others. What happened to our bold little 53% Spend time with their children
girls?” Achieve success
46%
46% Are physically active
Read an exerpt from the book. But according to Arianna, we can learn to master
our fear! She wrote in her book, “Fearlessness is
39% Do something artistic
about getting up one more time than we fall down.
Enjoy a hobby The more comfortable we are with the possibility of
39% falling down, the less worried we are of what people
will think if and when we do, the less judgmental of
35% Dance
ourselves we are every time we make a mistake, the
more fearless we will be, and the easier our journey
42% When they attend a religious service
will become.”
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Get Social With Repost and retweet as an
#ANADWeek #ANADAlly
In order to CHANGE THE MEDIA, we have to BECOME THE MEDIA.
ANAD is dedicated to creating new media and content that flips the body FIRST: Follow us by clicking on the icons below
negative advertising and marketing on its head, by producing media that is SECOND: Share our #ANADWeek Content
accurate and educational about the TRUE story of eating disorders.
THIRD: Create your own #ANADWeek Content
Get socially active this #ANADWeek by pulling out your smartphone and FOURTH: Don’t forget to tag: #ANADWeek, #ANADAlly
sharing our content to help educate the masses and ourselves about how
important positive body image and self-love is in the fight against eating FIFTH: Communicate with us! We want to hear from you!
disorders. How does #ANADWeek affect you and help you be more
loving and body positive towards yourself?
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Every Week is
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Thank you to our ANAD Treatment Center
Partners, who fight eating disorders along-
#ANADWeek side ANAD every single day.
At ANAD, every week is #ANAD week. We work all year long
to provide free support services to people with eating dis-
orders and their families, friends, and loved ones. We work
hard to ensure that accurate information is accessible for
those with eating disorders and and that everyone with an
eating disorder knows that THEY ARE NOT ALONE. Learn
more about ANAD’s free support services below.
ANAD EATING DISORDER SUPPORT GROUPS
make it easy to get in-person support from your
peers in recovery and can help prevent relapses.
ANAD RECOVERY MENTORS help guide and sup-
port those in recovery by sharing their own re-
covery experiences.
Recovery is real. Mentors are living proof.
THE ANAD HELPLINE is staffed with trained vol-
unteers who can help those in eating disorder
crisis and recommend professional treatment
options.
Call the Helpline today: 630-577-1330
ANAD.ORG
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